THE CONVICT SHIP.
DAY NOT YET OVER FRENCH CONTINGENT DEPARTS LONDON, April 4. That the days of the convict ship are in no way over was shown by the departure from St. Martin of the convict ship Martiniere for French Guiana, loaded with 418 convicts destined for penal servitude. They are closely confined under little bett | conditions than half a century ago. The men marched on foot through the streets to embark. They wore prison garb, with a characteristic little cap. They included the well-known Dr. Bovrgat, who murdered a cashier at Marseilles and his his body in the surgery cupboard. Young men predominated, gloomy and morose. The Martiniere is putting in to Algiers to take another consignment of murderers and other before setting a course on her long voyage.—(Australian Press Association —United Service).
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Wairarapa Age, 7 April 1928, Page 6
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